Although these headphone do sound good the rubber tips fall of to easy, apparently they are working on some replacement tips, but really they should have sorted this out before releasing them.
I was in to minds whether or not to return these but after reading some other bad review I decided it was the only sensible thing to do. (be warned the staff in the Bose shop tried everything under the sun not to let me take these back for a refund, it took me 15 minutes of arguing and threatening trading standards before getting my money back. Although to be fair I was one day over the 14 days they say they will accept them back, but I hardly think this is unreasonable and is pretty shocking customer service I will never purchase anything from Bose again based on this experience...)
Quality wise the headphone to sound go the Base is particularly noticeable the first time you listen to them, although after a while and with certain types of music I found it a bit much and would adjust the bass setting on my mp3 player although it was nice to have this option.
Across the rest of the music range they are noticeably clearer than the pair of £20 Sony i was previously using, although only very slightly. I went and got a pair of Sure EC2 after returning these Bose and to be honest I am a lot more impressed with these so far. Although I will have to try them for more than one day before I start raving about them (but so far they sound far better and I wish I bought the Sure EC2 two weeks ago instead of purchasing on the bases of the brand name quality...)
To sum up good sound quality but thy only real quality these headphones have going for them is the brand name and releasing these headphones has severely damaged my opinion of the Bose brand, would not recommend these headphones and the fact they were ever released leads me to question Bose as a company.
If you do feel the need to buy these don't buy directly from the Bose shop the customer services was awful!
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